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Child-proof caps, that adults cannot open! I used to joke about senior citizens who have to get their grand-kids to open the child-proof caps that they cannot open.
Two weeks ago, my cardiologist wanted me to change the medicine I'm using for hypertension. She gave me a sample bottle and the office gave me a coupon for the first month free.
It's a recent product and no generic is available. The pharmacy said it's $840 a month without insurance and $45 with. Ouch... as the one I was previously using was covered by insurance with a 'zero' co-payment.

Most of my medicines require a dosage of 1 time per day, this one is twice a day, but starting off, it regulates my pressure to normal with only one a day and that's a plus!

The sample has a childproof cap that requires pressing and squeezing but, the 'sawtooth' cap clicks and doesn't open without some great amount of force to open.
Enough of that... I'm putting them in a different bottle.

All my dear blogger
It's not for those who are using medicine for major treatments or believe in medical treatment.
It's my idea and practice they we can avoid medicine by taking measures for our disease like pain anywhere in body.
First we have to look in our daily life that what we had eaten at night or in daytime that pain started after that. Very simple to avoid eating that particular dish.
Same like other thing happens in our daily life to avoid them and to get rid of the disease.
Hope positive comments to be written.

The legendary NFL running back Jim Brown has died at the age of at 87.

Having played for the Cleveland Browns, he was elected to the Pro Football of Fame in 1971 and went on to be a movie star and civil rights activist. According to his wife, he passed peacefully in his sleep...

Rest in peace Jim Brown.

What was it, last week when Donald J. Trump attended the CNN Town Hall meeting and stated he was allowed to take classified documents when leaving the White House?
Apparently, that wasn't a good thing as his lawyer Tim Parlatore, announced a few days later that he's leaving the team.
Trump remains under federal investigation for mishandling classified documents as he left the White House in January 2021.
Personally, I think they are dragging this out...
How much more proof is the government looking for?


I'm curious if Parlatore will get paid for his services.



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This is part 2 of my absolute nightmare of a trip home from the US. In the last blog, I detailed the trip to Germany and the US, and the trip back to Germany.

Now it's time for the absolute biggest annoyance with air travel: Delays!

We were sitting in the aircraft, all buckled up, ready for takeoff, when a van with two people came up to the side of the aircraft. They wore helmets and vests. "Oh boy, this can't be good", was my thought. About ten minutes later, the captain came on the intercom and explained that we had to disembark, because the aircraft had a malfunction. However, we already had a new aircraft, and all we needed to do was find the new gate. We would then be off shortly.

However, when we reached the gate, we had to wait for an hour and a half to be allowed to board. By then, the boarding time said 7:40 am. The flight was originally scheduled for a 7:15 am takeoff, so we were already 35 minutes late. 7:40 am came and went - no boarding yet. A few of the passengers went to the desk to hear how much longer it would take. No answer. Only that they were working on it. By then, the time was 8 am

New boarding time was put on the monitor: 8:20 am. That made one of the passengers so irate, that he asked the staff member to cancel his ticket, which the staff member did. Very little information was given to us. It was a mix between "sorry for the delay" and "we have no information yet".

8:20 am came and went - still no boarding. I am usually a very calm and positive guy, but even I was reaching the point of having enough. Finally, at 8:45 am, a full hour and 5 minutes after the 7:40 am boarding time, we boarded the flight. 20 minutes later, we were ready for departure. Takeoff was at 9:18 am and we landed in Copenhagen at 10:18 am. Originally, we were scheduled for a 8:35 am landing, so we were almost 2 hours late. I found my suitcase, and went home.

That whole delay in Frankfurt single-handedly made me swear to never fly with Lufthansa again. Some good experiences cannot outweigh the bad. I know it's a low-cost airline, which I definitely experienced. My next flight will be with SAS. They have a direct flight to Dulles from Copenhagen, and I will definitely spend a bit more to get a better class. I am thinking Premium Economy, since I don't really have the money for business class. One more strike for Lufthansa was also when their app suddenly locked me out, with no way to change the password.

Pro: The food on the flight from Frankfurt to Dulles was good. Smooth flight as well. The flight from Dulles to Frankfurt was, despite a reboot of the in flight entertainment, pretty smooth as well. We hit some turbulence on the way, but it wasn't extreme.

Con: The "food" from Copenhagen to Frankfurt, the sandwich before landing in the US, the delay in Frankfurt and the app shutting me out

Three pros and four cons. It wasn't all negative, but I am still not going to recommend Lufthansa. If they had been more open and transparent about the delay in Frankfurt, I wouldn't have minded that. However, because they gave so little information, they go on the cons list.

Overall, I give the flight, as a whole a 5/10.

Back when I bought my trip to Washington D.C., I bought the tickets through Lufthansa in their Economy section. The flight was 3658 Danish kroner ($530.43), with a random seat allocation. I decided to spend 628 Danish kroner ($91.06), on picking my seats on all the flights, bringing the total cost of the trip to 4286 Danish kroner ($621.50).

Cheap, but it showed. The quality of the flight wasn't the best.

I will let you all know why I wouldn't pick Lufthansa again!

The trip was from Copenhagen to Frankfurt, and then onward to Washington D.C. A few days before departure, Lufthansa sent me an email where they told me, that they had gotten a different aircraft for my flight to Frankfurt, so I had gotten a new seat.

"alright, no harm done. At least I am going to go on my trip", and that first flight was quick. However - I seemed to be sitting between a company trip, because they all knew each other. They talked. And talked. And talked. Quite loud as well, and even when the safety demonstration was being performed. Very rude, I think.

The food on that flight - if you could call it that - was a bottle of water and a piece of chocolate. Granted, it was just an hour, but still. I was very hungry, and I had a two hour wait in Frankfurt - with no Euro on me, and my card isn't working outside Denmark.

Strike one.

We landed in Frankfurt ahead of time, which was fantastic! It was my first time in Frankfurt airport, so I had no idea what to expect. From the aircraft, we had to take a bus to the terminal, and from there, I had to find my gate for my next flight. Luckily, the gate was easy to find, so I sat down and relaxed until it was time to board.

An hour and a half later, we boarded. We were 350 people that needed to board - with just four people to handle that. It took a bit of time, but once we were situated in the aircraft - a rather old and tired Airbus A330 - we pushed back. The flight to the US was nothing to write home about. Pretty streamlined and pretty boring. The food was good, though. I got a chicken/mashed potato dish, which was excellent. Or maybe I was just hungry.

Just before landing I got very hungry. Luckily, they offered a snack, which I was very excited for. However - the bread was VERY dry - maybe because it had spent 8 hours in the fridge.. You don't put toast in the fridge..

Landing in Washington Dulles was good. We had some minor turbulence, but I wasn't worried. We touched down ahead of time, so it was off and through immigration. That flight was quite smooth, so maybe the Copenhagen to Frankfurt part was a one-off?

No.. The trip home was even worse. We pushed back from Dulles a few minutes behind schedule. That happens all the time, so as long as we landed on time in Frankfurt, I could make my flight home.

An hour into the flight, the captain came on the intercom, saying that some of the screens didn't show the entertainment, so they would kill the power and reboot. That didn't help, so they rebooted it again, which helped.

That was the only real memorable thing that happened on that flight, so fast-forward to landing in Frankfurt. I had an hour and a half to reach my gate and my connecting flight. I made the gate with 40 minutes to spare, so I sat down and relaxed. We boarded about 50 minutes later, and to my delight, I had a whole row to myself since the flight was only half full. That meant that boarding was completed well ahead of time, so we had about 20 minutes to relax, before we were taking off and pointing the nose to Denmark, and Copenhagen.

However - that was not to be for a while.. Read my next blog to find out why that was, and why I will not be flying Lufthansa again..

I am hung like a horse

Its hard for me to relate to people sometimes. I mean, I'm telling them about the time I jumped off the cliff trying to fly like superman because my mother made a cape for me out of a garbage bag only to nearly kill myself, they look at me totally bewildered and I'm like "you never?"

Socializing is hard

I had a interesting day starting at 5am and back to back meetings. I'm getting 2 of my clients complaints about some new system of electronically signing documents. My statement to management is START WITH THE NEW ORDERS and not penalize the orders already in house as it's bumping them to the back of the priority list.

For a few weeks, I worked with a general contractor doing a total house renovation and though I stressed for him to approve the details of my sales drawings, they go to engineering/design to make the actual shop drawings the factory builds from. He was obsessing for every little detail that cost a few weeks 'dotting all the i's and crossing all the T's.' The job is an hour drive from me, but I pushed every facet of the sale. I made a special trip to pick up the deposit check I made a special trip to drop off samples for the homeowner to approve. I had a sample door made for them and drove it down the same day it was painted (wrapped in a towel and put in a box, I was on the highway with the windows open a few times to keep the paint fumes from knocking me out) for special approval. At least 3 back and forth messages to tweak drawings.
I got annoyed as the office cannot put his order into production because he questioned the temperature of the lighting. We used to do 3,000K and switched to a brighter 4,000K. He want's 3,000K to match the lighting in the house.
"Put the order into production, there's no reason ho hold it for a change in light color"
I got a message to review the new drawings with a color of lighting change this afternoon. Nap time came around 5:30 so I'll check the drawing later tonight.
It would appear the 6 to 8 weeks delivery will now be about 14 weeks.

Order processing delays will be my topic of discussion in the sales meeting tomorrow morning!

Background for the reason of my blog title and for those of you who don't speak Spanish. I learned the phrase about 45 years ago as a draftsman where all my coworkers were Hispanic. I was the only Gringo in the drafting department and picked up a few phrases along the way. Yo no soy bobo means, I'm not stupid.

Before logging in tonight, I scanned the new members list to see a woman who could easily qualify for the most beautiful new CS member. I won't give out her name and location, but her photo referenced to an Instagram profile of a woman originally from Venezuela that linked to a TikTok page where she uses her real name with the prefix Yo Soy (first name, last name)
Yo soy translates to "I am"

Wow... is it possible a REAL person is a new member on CS?






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